TY - JOUR A1 - Altmann, Steffen A1 - Traxler, Christian T1 - Nudges at the Dentist JF - European Economic Review N2 - We implement a randomized field experiment to study the impact of reminders on dental health prevention. Patients who are due for a check-up receive no reminder, a neutral reminder postcard, or reminders including additional information on the benefits of prevention. Our results document a strong impact of reminders. Within one month after receiving a reminder, the fraction of patients who make a check-up appointment more than doubles. The effect declines slightly over time, but remains economically and statistically significant. Including additional information in the reminders does not increase response rates. In fact, the neutral reminder has the strongest impact for the overall population as well as for important subgroups of patients. Finally, we document that being exposed to reminders repeatedly does neither strengthen nor weaken their effectiveness. KW - field experiments KW - reminders KW - nudges KW - memory limitations KW - prevention Y1 - 2014 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1969 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b1570-opus4-19694 N1 - This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in European Economic Review. The final authenticated version is available online at: DOI 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2014.07.007 VL - 72 SP - 19 EP - 38 ER -